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From Robots To Schoenberg: MIT Opera Of The Future Composer Tod Machover Evolves Tradition With Tech
It’s been a long journey from Machover’s expansive imagination to the stage.
November 14, 2018
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Jonny Sun’s New Art Project Is a Sitcom, Starring You
The Twitter celebrity’s Laughing Room features a laugh track powered by artificial intelligence.
November 9, 2018
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First, he wrote a book with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Next, an art exhibit in Cambridge that will tell you if you’re funny
Between moonlighting as a Twitter comedian, collaborating with “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on a new book, and making appearances on late-night television, Jonny Sun somehow found time to create an interactive art installation that’s debuting in Cambridge this month.
November 9, 2018
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Bowie, Joni and Leonard: Breathing life into the poetic trinity
What becomes a legend most?
November 1, 2018
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Smelling A.I.: Anicka Yi On the Future of Olfaction, Death, and How Science Can Benefit From Working With Artists
Describing any of Anicka Yi’s unorthodox works as being “multimedia” would be an accurate, though a severely understated characterization.
October 27, 2018
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Seven Can’t Miss Events in Boston, November 2018
This time, Machover examines the flight of groundbreaking modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg from Nazi Germany to L.A. (via Brookline, as it happens), and the challenges the notoriously tenacious artist faced when he got there.
October 25, 2018
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Tony Conrad fought the snob art of the social climbers
Tony Conrad pickled film in canning jars. He made musical instruments out of bathroom plungers and golf club sleeves.
October 25, 2018
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Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science
He spent decades deconstructing the ways that scientists claim their authority. Can his ideas help them regain that authority today?
October 25, 2018
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Jonny Sun Knows That Twitter Can Still Be The Internet’s Good Place
The Twitter humorist turned author-illustrator has a book—co-created by Lin-Manuel Miranda—that might just convince you not to delete those social media accounts.
October 22, 2018
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With Spiders and Space Dust, Tomás Saraceno Takes Off
“Oh, no! They swept her away!” exclaimed Tomás Saraceno, his eyes wide as he looked through a doorway at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
October 19, 2018
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Tomás Saraceno llega al Palais de Tokyo con una “jam session cósmica”
“La idea es actuar juntos en un sistema en devenir, siempre contingente y en permanente evolución, siguiendo various ritmos y trayectorias, para obtener un conjunto del universo”, explicó ayer en la vista guiada para la prensa internacional, junto con la … Continued
October16, 2018
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Free Public Art Around Boston that Will Blow Your Kids’ Minds
A tribute to science (that kids can run inside of) looms near MIT.
October 9, 2018
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Who Is Neri Oxman?
A star of M.I.T.’s Media Lab working in “material ecology,” she has intrigued Björk, Brad Pitt and the Cooper Hewitt.
October 6, 2018
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MIT Hacking Arts Marries Art And Blockchain
The student-run festival will bring together art professionals, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
October 3, 2018
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Motion sculptures in 3-D
A system developed by CSAIL researchers that creates 3-D motion sculptures based off of 2-D video could help dancers and athletes learn more about how they move.
September 24, 2018
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Twelve Tones in Tinseltown
Arnold Schoenberg fled the darkness and despair of Hitler’s Europe for 1930s Hollywood—a bold new world of golden sunshine and camera-ready beauty.
September 24, 2018
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BAF and Carlo Ratti Win Taiwan National Library Competition
Bio-architecture Formosana (BAF) and Carlo Ratti Architects have won the international competition for the Southern branch of the Taiwan National Library and Repository in Tainan, Taiwan.
September 24, 2018
This beaming sculpture will shine from earth’s orbit — and probe the politics of space
In November 1969, six tiny pieces of art hitched a ride to the moon.
September 23, 2018
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Maya Beiser and Evan Ziporyn Embark on a U.S. Tour with Ziporyn’s Ambient Orchestra Performing Bowie Symphonic: Blackstar
This fall, cello soloist Maya Beiser and composer/conductor Evan Ziporyn embark on a U.S. tour with Ziporyn’s Ambient Orchestra.
September 20, 2018
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Megaphones Up, the Philharmonic Opens With Two Young Voices
The New York Philharmonic’s declaration of its new-music bona fides this season is so emphatic, it’s being delivered with megaphones.
September 18, 2018
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Meet Nicole L’Huillier of Breaking Forms
Today we’d like to introduce you to Nicole L’Huillier.
September 18, 2018
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Our Guide To This Fall’s Most Innovative Opera
No stranger to blending technology with the opera stage, composer and academic head of MIT’s Media Lab Tod Machover tackles an unlikely history this fall in the world premiere of “Schoenberg in Hollywood.”
September 17, 2018
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Logs accept first woman
Though women have auditioned before, Quinn Brodsky ’22 first to be accepted
September 17, 2018
Flash Art 322 September – October 2018
The cover of the September – October issue of Flash Art portrays Tony Conrad, an avant-garde filmmaker, pioneering musician, artist, theorist, philosopher, committed teacher, and activist.
September 12, 2018
How Neri Oxman reimagined design
The work of MIT professor Neri Oxman straddles art and science.
September 7, 2018